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Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism: Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945 (Jazz Perspectives) by Jeremy F Lane; Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Jeremy F. Lane’s __Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism__ is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane’s book closely examines the reception of jazz among French-speaking intellectuals between 1918 and 1945 and is the first study to consider the relationships, sometimes symbiotic, sometimes antagonistic, between early white French jazz critics and those French-speaking intellectuals of color whose first encounters with the music in those years played a catalytic role in their emerging black or Creole consciousness. Jazz’s first arrival in France in 1918 coincided with a series of profound shocks to received notions of French national identity and cultural and moral superiority. These shocks, characteristic of the era of machine-age imperialism, had been provoked by the first total mechanized war, the accelerated introduction of Taylorist and Fordist production techniques into European factories, and the more frequent encounters with primitive “Others” in the imperial metropolis engendered by interwar imperialism. Through close readings of the work of early white French jazz critics, alongside the essays and poems

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Author

Jeremy F Lane; Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)

Publisher

University of Michigan Press; The University of Michigan Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299734593

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, Arts